Lavrov: The war in Ukraine will continue "until the objectives are achieved"

"President putin has clearly reaffirmed that we will continue pursuing the objectives that were set back in June 2024 during his address at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs", - russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on July 9, according to “The Moscow Times” Telegram channel.

The report recalls that during the 2024 speech referenced by Lavrov, putin demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the entire territories of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts, which russia had failed to capture, recognition of those regions and Crimea as russian territory, Ukraine's abandonment of its NATO aspirations, as well as the "demilitarization" and "denazification" of Ukraine. putin claimed that once these conditions were met, he would "immediately" order a ceasefire.